Intel provides a suite of tools for programming Cilk-based programs. The tool set contains the Intel compiler ICC, the parallelism checker Cilkview, the race condition reporter Cilkscreen, the binary-level instrumentation gadget Pintool, the fine-level instrumentation tool Cilkprof. Here is a guide to install them on a 64-bit Linux.

Intel provides a suite of tools for programming Cilk-based programs. The tool set contains the Intel compiler ICC, the parallelism checker Cilkview, the race condition reporter Cilkscreen, the binary-level instrumentation gadget Pintool, the fine-level instrumentation tool Cilkprof. Here is a guide to install them on a 64-bit Linux.

## Unpack the downloaded file and run <code>$ /path/to/unpacked/file/install.sh</code>. To allow all users to access ICC on the system, run this install script as root.

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## Unpack the downloaded file and run the installation script.

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##: <code>$ /path/to/unpacked/file/install.sh</code>.

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##: ''Note'': To allow all users to access ICC on the system, run this install script as root.

## Follow the on-screen instructions to install ICC.

## Follow the on-screen instructions to install ICC.

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## To set up your environment variables to use ICC, run <code>$ source /path/to/intel/bin/compilervars.sh intel64</code>.

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## Set up your environment variables to use ICC.

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#* '''Installing GCC:''' These instructions walk you through checking out and building the cilkplus branch of GCC. Complete instructions for building GCC from source can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html. These instructions will install GCC into a custom directory, <code>gcc-cilk</code>, so as not to overwrite the existing version of GCC on your system. As a warning, this process takes a while and uses a couple gigabytes of space.

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##: <code>$ source /path/to/intel/bin/compilervars.sh intel64</code>.

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## Check out the latest version of the cilkplus branch of GCC.

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# '''Installing GCC:''' These instructions walk you through checking out and building the latest version of GCC, which supports the Cilk keywords. Complete instructions for building GCC from source can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html. These instructions will install GCC into a custom directory, <code>gcc</code>, so as not to overwrite the existing version of GCC on your system.

#: ''Warning'': This process takes a while and use a couple gigabytes of space.

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##: '''Note:''' I encountered problems with my connection timing out when I tried to check out the repository from http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus instead of svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus. If you encounter similar problems, make sure you are using the "svn" protocol, instead of the "http" protocol. If you have previously checked out the gcc cilkplus source using "http," you can switch your checkout to use "svn" by running

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#: ''Prerequisites'': You will need the following installed on your system. (For more information non prerequisites, please check http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html.)

##: ''Note:'': You might want to add <code>--disable-multilib</code> to the configuration options if multilib is not installed on your system. Otherwise, you might encounter errors such as:

##: <code>gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.</code>

##: <code>gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.</code>

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## Compile GCC: <code>$ make</code>

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## Compile GCC:

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## Install GCC into gcc-cilk: <code>$ make install</code>

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##: <code>$ make</code>

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## The new GCC binary is <code>/path/to/gcc-cilk/bin/gcc</code>.

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##: ''Note:'': If you have multiple cores on your system, you can speed up this compilation using make's <code>-j<number_of_threads></code> flag.

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## Set up environment!

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## Install GCC into <code>/path/to/gcc/</code>:

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### <code> export PATH=path/to/gcc-cilk/bin:$PATH </code>

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##: <code>$ make install</code>

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### <code> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path/to/gcc-cilk/lib </code>

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## The new GCC binary is <code>/path/to/gcc/bin/gcc</code>.

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### <code> export LIBRARY_PATH=path/to/gcc-cilk/lib </code>

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## Set up the necessary environment variables. For example, if you are using bash, execute the following, or add these lines to <code>~/.bashrc</code> to set up these variables automatically when you log in.

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# '''Install Cilkview Cilkscreen:''' Get it from here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus-software-development-kit/. The include bin directory in PATH.

# '''Install Cilkprof:''' You need Pin revision 53271 in order to run Cilkprof. These instructions include instructions on downloading and installing this version of Pin for Cilkprof.

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##: <code>$ export LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/gcc/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH</code>

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## Change to the directory in which you would like to install Cilkprof.

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# '''Install the Cilk Plus tools (cilkview and cilkscreen):''' Download the archive from here: https://www.cilkplus.org/download#block-views-cilk-tools-block-1. Unpack the archive and include the <code>bin</code> directory inside the newly-created directory in your <code>$PATH</code>. For example, if you are using bash, execute the following lines, or add these lines to your <code>~/.bashrc</code>.

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## Create two new directories, <code>cilkutil</code> and <code>3rdparty</code>.

# '''Install Cilkprof:''' These instructions include instructions on downloading and installing Pin for Cilkprof. These instructions should work with the latest version of Pin, which is version 62141 at the time these instructions were last updated. These instructions have not necessarily been tested on newer version of Pin, however.

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## Change to the directory <code>cilkprof/install/dir</code> in which you would like to install Cilkprof.

## Download Pin revision 53271 for Linux from http://www.pintool.org/downloads.html, and place the downloaded archive into <code>3rdparty</code>.

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## Download Pin for Linux from http://www.pintool.org/downloads.html, and place the downloaded archive into <code>3rdparty</code>.

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## Download “libzca source to provide access to Cilk metadata with Cilkprof sample tool” from http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-intel-cilk-plus-software-development-kit/, and place the downloaded archives into <code>cilkutil</code>.

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## Download libzca from http://cilkplus.org/download, and place the downloaded archive into the current directory, <code>cilkprof/install/dir</code>.

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## Run <code>$ cd 3rdparty</code> and then unpack the Pin archive.

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## Unpack the Pin archive inside of <code>3rdparty</code>.

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## Rename the folder created from unpacking the archive to <code>pintool</code>.

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## Create a symbolic link called <code>pintool</code> to the directory created by unpacking the archive.

## If you do not have the necessary permissions to access the <code>intel64</code> subdirectory inside of <code>pintool</code>, run <code>$ chmod -R 755 intel64</code>.

## If you do not have the necessary permissions to access the <code>intel64</code> subdirectory inside of <code>pintool</code>, run <code>$ chmod -R 755 intel64</code>.

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## Run <code>$ cd ../cilkutil</code> and unpack the <code>libzca</code> archive. This will produce a <code>zca</code> directory and a <code>cilkprof</code> directory.

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## Unpack the <code>libzca</code> archive inside of <code>cilkprof/install/dir</code>. Create a symbolic link called <code>cilkutil</code> to the directory created by unpacking this archive.

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## Ensure you have the necessary permissions on the unpacked archive directories, using <code>chmod</code>.

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## Build libzca and cilkprof.

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##: <code>$ chmod -R 755 *</code>

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##: <code>$ cd cilkutil</code>

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## Build libzca as follows.

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##: <code>$ make</code> (You will need a version of <code>gcc</code> and a version of <code>icc</code> to complete this compilation.)

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##: <code>$ cd zca/src</code>

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## Download the <code>cilkprof</code> script from http://web.mit.edu/neboat/www/code/cilkprof, and place it in a directory in your <code>PATH</code> environment variable. For example, place it within the same directory as <code>cilkview</code> and <code>cilkscreen</code>.

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##: <code>$ make OUT=linux64</code>

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## Build cilkprof as follows.

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##: <code>$ cd ../../cilkprof</code>

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##: <code>$ make</code>

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## Download the <code>cilkprof</code> script from http://web.mit.edu/neboat/www/code/cilkprof, and place it in a directory in your <code>PATH</code> environment variable.

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## Set the CILKUTIL environment variable to point to the <code>cilkutil</code> directory. For example, if your shell is bash, add the line <code>export CILKUTIL=/path/to/cilkutil</code> to your <code>.bashrc</code>.

## Set the CILKUTIL environment variable to point to the <code>cilkutil</code> directory. For example, if your shell is bash, add the line <code>export CILKUTIL=/path/to/cilkutil</code> to your <code>.bashrc</code>.

*** This command generates two csv output files, <code>cilkprogram.bb.csv</code> and <code>cilkprogram.cc.csv</code>, containing work and span profiling data for your Cilk program. At this time, the data in these files are most easily perused using your favorite spreadsheet program. For more information on configuring the output of Cilkprof, run <code>$ cilkprof -h</code>.

*** This command generates two csv output files, <code>cilkprogram.bb.csv</code> and <code>cilkprogram.cc.csv</code>, containing work and span profiling data for your Cilk program. At this time, the data in these files are most easily perused using your favorite spreadsheet program. For more information on configuring the output of Cilkprof, run <code>$ cilkprof -h</code>.

Latest revision as of 19:16, 5 March 2015

Intel provides a suite of tools for programming Cilk-based programs. The tool set contains the Intel compiler ICC, the parallelism checker Cilkview, the race condition reporter Cilkscreen, the binary-level instrumentation gadget Pintool, the fine-level instrumentation tool Cilkprof. Here is a guide to install them on a 64-bit Linux.

Note: To allow all users to access ICC on the system, run this install script as root.

Follow the on-screen instructions to install ICC.

Set up your environment variables to use ICC.

$ source /path/to/intel/bin/compilervars.sh intel64.

Installing GCC: These instructions walk you through checking out and building the latest version of GCC, which supports the Cilk keywords. Complete instructions for building GCC from source can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html. These instructions will install GCC into a custom directory, gcc, so as not to overwrite the existing version of GCC on your system.

Warning: This process takes a while and use a couple gigabytes of space.

Create some directories for the GCC source, compiled objects, and binaries:

$ mkdir /path/to/gcc

$ mkdir /path/to/gcc/src

$ mkdir /path/to/gcc/obj

Check out the latest version of GCC.

You can check out the repository using Git:

$ git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git gcc/src

Configure GCC:.

$ cd /path/to/gcc/obj

$ ../src/configure --prefix=${PWD}/.. --enable-languages=c,c++

Note:: You might want to add --disable-multilib to the configuration options if multilib is not installed on your system. Otherwise, you might encounter errors such as:

gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

Compile GCC:

$ make

Note:: If you have multiple cores on your system, you can speed up this compilation using make's -j<number_of_threads> flag.

Install GCC into /path/to/gcc/:

$ make install

The new GCC binary is /path/to/gcc/bin/gcc.

Set up the necessary environment variables. For example, if you are using bash, execute the following, or add these lines to ~/.bashrc to set up these variables automatically when you log in.

$ export PATH=/path/to/gcc/bin:$PATH

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/gcc/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$ export LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/gcc/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH

Install the Cilk Plus tools (cilkview and cilkscreen): Download the archive from here: https://www.cilkplus.org/download#block-views-cilk-tools-block-1. Unpack the archive and include the bin directory inside the newly-created directory in your $PATH. For example, if you are using bash, execute the following lines, or add these lines to your ~/.bashrc.

Install Cilkprof: These instructions include instructions on downloading and installing Pin for Cilkprof. These instructions should work with the latest version of Pin, which is version 62141 at the time these instructions were last updated. These instructions have not necessarily been tested on newer version of Pin, however.

Change to the directory cilkprof/install/dir in which you would like to install Cilkprof.

Create a symbolic link called pintool to the directory created by unpacking the archive.

If you do not have the necessary permissions to access the intel64 subdirectory inside of pintool, run $ chmod -R 755 intel64.

Unpack the libzca archive inside of cilkprof/install/dir. Create a symbolic link called cilkutil to the directory created by unpacking this archive.

Build libzca and cilkprof.

$ cd cilkutil

$ make (You will need a version of gcc and a version of icc to complete this compilation.)

Download the cilkprof script from http://web.mit.edu/neboat/www/code/cilkprof, and place it in a directory in your PATH environment variable. For example, place it within the same directory as cilkview and cilkscreen.

Set the CILKUTIL environment variable to point to the cilkutil directory. For example, if your shell is bash, add the line export CILKUTIL=/path/to/cilkutil to your .bashrc.

This command generates two csv output files, cilkprogram.bb.csv and cilkprogram.cc.csv, containing work and span profiling data for your Cilk program. At this time, the data in these files are most easily perused using your favorite spreadsheet program. For more information on configuring the output of Cilkprof, run $ cilkprof -h.